2 # File system configuration
10 tristate "Second extended fs support"
12 Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
14 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
15 module will be called ext2.
20 bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
23 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
24 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
25 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
29 config EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
30 bool "Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
31 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
34 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
35 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
37 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
38 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
40 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
42 config EXT2_FS_SECURITY
43 bool "Ext2 Security Labels"
44 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR
46 Security labels support alternative access control models
47 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
48 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
49 labels in the ext2 filesystem.
51 If you are not using a security module that requires using
52 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
55 bool "Ext2 execute in place support"
56 depends on EXT2_FS && MMU
58 Execute in place can be used on memory-backed block devices. If you
59 enable this option, you can select to mount block devices which are
60 capable of this feature without using the page cache.
62 If you do not use a block device that is capable of using this,
68 depends on EXT2_FS_XIP
72 tristate "Ext3 journalling file system support"
75 This is the journalling version of the Second extended file system
76 (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
77 (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
79 The journalling code included in this driver means you do not have
80 to run e2fsck (file system checker) on your file systems after a
81 crash. The journal keeps track of any changes that were being made
82 at the time the system crashed, and can ensure that your file system
83 is consistent without the need for a lengthy check.
85 Other than adding the journal to the file system, the on-disk format
86 of ext3 is identical to ext2. It is possible to freely switch
87 between using the ext3 driver and the ext2 driver, as long as the
88 file system has been cleanly unmounted, or e2fsck is run on the file
91 To add a journal on an existing ext2 file system or change the
92 behavior of ext3 file systems, you can use the tune2fs utility ("man
93 tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and directories on ext3
94 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr"). You need to be using
95 e2fsprogs version 1.20 or later in order to create ext3 journals
96 (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>).
98 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
99 module will be called ext3.
102 bool "Ext3 extended attributes"
106 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
107 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
108 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
112 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext3.
114 config EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL
115 bool "Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists"
116 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
119 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
120 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
122 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
123 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
125 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
127 config EXT3_FS_SECURITY
128 bool "Ext3 Security Labels"
129 depends on EXT3_FS_XATTR
131 Security labels support alternative access control models
132 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
133 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
134 labels in the ext3 filesystem.
136 If you are not using a security module that requires using
137 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
140 tristate "Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)"
141 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
144 Ext4dev is a predecessor filesystem of the next generation
145 extended fs ext4, based on ext3 filesystem code. It will be
146 renamed ext4 fs later, once ext4dev is mature and stabilized.
148 Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
149 the on-disk format of ext4dev is not the same as ext3 any more:
150 it is based on extent maps and it supports 48-bit physical block
151 numbers. These combined on-disk format changes will allow
152 ext4dev/ext4 to handle more than 16 TB filesystem volumes --
153 a hard limit that ext3 cannot overcome without changing the
156 Other than extent maps and 48-bit block numbers, ext4dev also is
157 likely to have other new features such as persistent preallocation,
158 high resolution time stamps, and larger file support etc. These
159 features will be added to ext4dev gradually.
161 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
162 module will be called ext4dev.
166 config EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
167 bool "Ext4dev extended attributes"
168 depends on EXT4DEV_FS
171 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
172 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
173 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
177 You need this for POSIX ACL support on ext4dev/ext4.
179 config EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL
180 bool "Ext4dev POSIX Access Control Lists"
181 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
184 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
185 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
187 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
188 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
190 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
192 config EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY
193 bool "Ext4dev Security Labels"
194 depends on EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
196 Security labels support alternative access control models
197 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
198 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
199 labels in the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem.
201 If you are not using a security module that requires using
202 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
207 This is a generic journalling layer for block devices. It is
208 currently used by the ext3 and OCFS2 file systems, but it could
209 also be used to add journal support to other file systems or block
210 devices such as RAID or LVM.
212 If you are using the ext3 or OCFS2 file systems, you need to
213 say Y here. If you are not using ext3 OCFS2 then you will probably
216 To compile this device as a module, choose M here: the module will be
217 called jbd. If you are compiling ext3 or OCFS2 into the kernel,
218 you cannot compile this code as a module.
221 bool "JBD (ext3) debugging support"
224 If you are using the ext3 journaled file system (or potentially any
225 other file system/device using JBD), this option allows you to
226 enable debugging output while the system is running, in order to
227 help track down any problems you are having. By default the
228 debugging output will be turned off.
230 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
231 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug", where N is a number between
232 1 and 5, the higher the number, the more debugging output is
233 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
234 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug".
239 This is a generic journaling layer for block devices that support
240 both 32-bit and 64-bit block numbers. It is currently used by
241 the ext4dev/ext4 filesystem, but it could also be used to add
242 journal support to other file systems or block devices such
245 If you are using ext4dev/ext4, you need to say Y here. If you are not
246 using ext4dev/ext4 then you will probably want to say N.
248 To compile this device as a module, choose M here. The module will be
249 called jbd2. If you are compiling ext4dev/ext4 into the kernel,
250 you cannot compile this code as a module.
253 bool "JBD2 (ext4dev/ext4) debugging support"
256 If you are using the ext4dev/ext4 journaled file system (or
257 potentially any other filesystem/device using JBD2), this option
258 allows you to enable debugging output while the system is running,
259 in order to help track down any problems you are having.
260 By default, the debugging output will be turned off.
262 If you select Y here, then you will be able to turn on debugging
263 with "echo N > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug", where N is a number between
264 1 and 5. The higher the number, the more debugging output is
265 generated. To turn debugging off again, do
266 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug".
269 # Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
271 depends on EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT3_FS_XATTR || EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
272 default y if EXT2_FS=y || EXT3_FS=y || EXT4DEV_FS=y
273 default m if EXT2_FS=m || EXT3_FS=m || EXT4DEV_FS=m
276 tristate "Reiserfs support"
278 Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced
279 tree. Uses journalling.
281 Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system
282 architectural foundations.
284 In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with
285 large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed
286 for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links.
288 It is more easily extended to have features currently found in
289 database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file
290 systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support
291 plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to
292 make source code open.''
294 Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs.
296 Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com.
298 If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you
299 need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
301 config REISERFS_CHECK
302 bool "Enable reiserfs debug mode"
303 depends on REISERFS_FS
305 If you set this to Y, then ReiserFS will perform every check it can
306 possibly imagine of its internal consistency throughout its
307 operation. It will also go substantially slower. More than once we
308 have forgotten that this was on, and then gone despondent over the
309 latest benchmarks.:-) Use of this option allows our team to go all
310 out in checking for consistency when debugging without fear of its
311 effect on end users. If you are on the verge of sending in a bug
312 report, say Y and you might get a useful error message. Almost
313 everyone should say N.
315 config REISERFS_PROC_INFO
316 bool "Stats in /proc/fs/reiserfs"
317 depends on REISERFS_FS
319 Create under /proc/fs/reiserfs a hierarchy of files, displaying
320 various ReiserFS statistics and internal data at the expense of
321 making your kernel or module slightly larger (+8 KB). This also
322 increases the amount of kernel memory required for each mount.
323 Almost everyone but ReiserFS developers and people fine-tuning
324 reiserfs or tracing problems should say N.
326 config REISERFS_FS_XATTR
327 bool "ReiserFS extended attributes"
328 depends on REISERFS_FS
330 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
331 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
332 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
336 config REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
337 bool "ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
338 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
341 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
342 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
344 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
345 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
347 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
349 config REISERFS_FS_SECURITY
350 bool "ReiserFS Security Labels"
351 depends on REISERFS_FS_XATTR
353 Security labels support alternative access control models
354 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
355 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
356 labels in the ReiserFS filesystem.
358 If you are not using a security module that requires using
359 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
362 tristate "JFS filesystem support"
365 This is a port of IBM's Journaled Filesystem . More information is
366 available in the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt>.
368 If you do not intend to use the JFS filesystem, say N.
371 bool "JFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
375 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
376 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
378 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
379 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
381 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
384 bool "JFS Security Labels"
387 Security labels support alternative access control models
388 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
389 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
390 labels in the jfs filesystem.
392 If you are not using a security module that requires using
393 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
399 If you are experiencing any problems with the JFS filesystem, say
400 Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be
401 written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this
402 results in very little overhead.
404 config JFS_STATISTICS
405 bool "JFS statistics"
408 Enabling this option will cause statistics from the JFS file system
409 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jfs/ directory.
412 # Posix ACL utility routines (for now, only ext2/ext3/jfs/reiserfs)
414 # NOTE: you can implement Posix ACLs without these helpers (XFS does).
415 # Never use this symbol for ifdefs.
420 source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
421 source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
424 tristate "OCFS2 file system support"
425 depends on NET && SYSFS
430 OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
431 system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
432 numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
433 also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
435 You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
438 Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
439 Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
440 OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
442 Note: Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
443 - extended attributes
444 - shared writeable mmap
445 - loopback is supported, but data written will not
448 - cluster aware flock
449 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
450 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
452 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
454 config OCFS2_DEBUG_MASKLOG
455 bool "OCFS2 logging support"
459 The ocfs2 filesystem has an extensive logging system. The system
460 allows selection of events to log via files in /sys/o2cb/logmask/.
461 This option will enlarge your kernel, but it allows debugging of
462 ocfs2 filesystem issues.
465 tristate "Minix fs support"
467 Minix is a simple operating system used in many classes about OS's.
468 The minix file system (method to organize files on a hard disk
469 partition or a floppy disk) was the original file system for Linux,
470 but has been superseded by the second extended file system ext2fs.
471 You don't want to use the minix file system on your hard disk
472 because of certain built-in restrictions, but it is sometimes found
473 on older Linux floppy disks. This option will enlarge your kernel
474 by about 28 KB. If unsure, say N.
476 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
477 module will be called minix. Note that the file system of your root
478 partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as
482 tristate "ROM file system support"
484 This is a very small read-only file system mainly intended for
485 initial ram disks of installation disks, but it could be used for
486 other read-only media as well. Read
487 <file:Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt> for details.
489 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
490 module will be called romfs. Note that the file system of your
491 root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot be a
494 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
500 bool "Inotify file change notification support"
503 Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
504 notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
505 numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
506 including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
509 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
514 bool "Inotify support for userspace"
518 Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
519 associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
520 directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
521 descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
523 For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
530 If you say Y here, you will be able to set per user limits for disk
531 usage (also called disk quotas). Currently, it works for the
532 ext2, ext3, and reiserfs file system. ext3 also supports journalled
533 quotas for which you don't need to run quotacheck(8) after an unclean
535 For further details, read the Quota mini-HOWTO, available from
536 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or the documentation provided
537 with the quota tools. Probably the quota support is only useful for
538 multi user systems. If unsure, say N.
541 tristate "Old quota format support"
544 This quota format was (is) used by kernels earlier than 2.4.22. If
545 you have quota working and you don't want to convert to new quota
549 tristate "Quota format v2 support"
552 This quota format allows using quotas with 32-bit UIDs/GIDs. If you
553 need this functionality say Y here.
557 depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
561 bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
564 Dnotify is a directory-based per-fd file change notification system
565 that uses signals to communicate events to user-space. There exist
566 superior alternatives, but some applications may still rely on
569 Because of this, if unsure, say Y.
572 tristate "Kernel automounter support"
574 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
575 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
576 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
577 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
579 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from the autofs
580 package; you can find the location in <file:Documentation/Changes>.
581 You also want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
583 If you want to use the newer version of the automounter with more
584 features, say N here and say Y to "Kernel automounter v4 support",
587 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
590 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network, you
591 probably do not need an automounter, and can say N here.
594 tristate "Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)"
596 The automounter is a tool to automatically mount remote file systems
597 on demand. This implementation is partially kernel-based to reduce
598 overhead in the already-mounted case; this is unlike the BSD
599 automounter (amd), which is a pure user space daemon.
601 To use the automounter you need the user-space tools from
602 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/>; you also
603 want to answer Y to "NFS file system support", below.
605 To compile this support as a module, choose M here: the module will be
606 called autofs4. You will need to add "alias autofs autofs4" to your
607 modules configuration file.
609 If you are not a part of a fairly large, distributed network or
610 don't have a laptop which needs to dynamically reconfigure to the
611 local network, you probably do not need an automounter, and can say
615 tristate "Filesystem in Userspace support"
617 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
618 in a userspace program.
620 There's also companion library: libfuse. This library along with
621 utilities is available from the FUSE homepage:
622 <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>
624 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt> for more information.
625 See <file:Documentation/Changes> for needed library/utility version.
627 If you want to develop a userspace FS, or if you want to use
628 a filesystem based on FUSE, answer Y or M.
635 menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
638 tristate "ISO 9660 CDROM file system support"
640 This is the standard file system used on CD-ROMs. It was previously
641 known as "High Sierra File System" and is called "hsfs" on other
642 Unix systems. The so-called Rock-Ridge extensions which allow for
643 long Unix filenames and symbolic links are also supported by this
644 driver. If you have a CD-ROM drive and want to do more with it than
645 just listen to audio CDs and watch its LEDs, say Y (and read
646 <file:Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt> and the CD-ROM-HOWTO,
647 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), thereby
648 enlarging your kernel by about 27 KB; otherwise say N.
650 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
651 module will be called isofs.
654 bool "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions"
655 depends on ISO9660_FS
658 Joliet is a Microsoft extension for the ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
659 which allows for long filenames in unicode format (unicode is the
660 new 16 bit character code, successor to ASCII, which encodes the
661 characters of almost all languages of the world; see
662 <http://www.unicode.org/> for more information). Say Y here if you
663 want to be able to read Joliet CD-ROMs under Linux.
666 bool "Transparent decompression extension"
667 depends on ISO9660_FS
670 This is a Linux-specific extension to RockRidge which lets you store
671 data in compressed form on a CD-ROM and have it transparently
672 decompressed when the CD-ROM is accessed. See
673 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/> for the tools
674 necessary to create such a filesystem. Say Y here if you want to be
675 able to read such compressed CD-ROMs.
678 # for fs/nls/Config.in
684 tristate "UDF file system support"
686 This is the new file system used on some CD-ROMs and DVDs. Say Y if
687 you intend to mount DVD discs or CDRW's written in packet mode, or
688 if written to by other UDF utilities, such as DirectCD.
689 Please read <file:Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt>.
691 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
692 module will be called udf.
699 depends on (UDF_FS=m && NLS) || (UDF_FS=y && NLS=y)
705 menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
711 If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
712 VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
713 to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
714 diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
715 files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
718 This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
719 the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
720 M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
721 order to make use of it.
723 Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
724 partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
725 mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
728 If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
729 Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
730 file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
731 available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
733 It is now also becoming possible to read and write compressed FAT
734 file systems; read <file:Documentation/filesystems/fat_cvf.txt> for
737 The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
740 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
741 fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
742 cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
743 -- they will have to be modules as well.
746 tristate "MSDOS fs support"
749 This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
750 they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
751 Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
752 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
753 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
754 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
755 intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
756 here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
757 transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
760 If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
761 partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
762 support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
763 generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
765 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
766 answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
767 as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
771 tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
774 This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
775 long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
776 used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
777 programs from the mtools package.
779 The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
780 works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
781 the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
784 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
787 config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
788 int "Default codepage for FAT"
789 depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
792 This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
793 It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
794 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
796 config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
797 string "Default iocharset for FAT"
801 Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
802 like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
803 that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
804 with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
805 Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
806 If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
807 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
810 tristate "NTFS file system support"
813 NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
815 Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but
816 safe, write support available. For write support you must also
817 say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
819 There are also a number of user-space tools available, called
820 ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work
821 without NTFS support enabled in the kernel.
823 This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced
824 the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to
825 the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch
826 from the project web site.
828 For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt>
829 and <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>.
831 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
832 module will be called ntfs.
834 If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to
835 Linux on your computer it is safe to say N.
838 bool "NTFS debugging support"
841 If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say
842 Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be
843 performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to
844 be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are
845 disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1
846 at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option
847 to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active,
848 you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root):
849 echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
850 Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages.
852 If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little
853 overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant
854 slowdown of the system.
856 When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of
857 debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring.
860 bool "NTFS write support"
863 This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.
865 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
866 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
867 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
868 so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
871 While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
872 so far not received a single report where the driver would have
873 damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.
875 Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from
876 scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS
877 write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),
880 This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run
881 on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your
882 hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not
883 need its own partition. For more information see
884 <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>
886 It is perfectly safe to say N here.
891 menu "Pseudo filesystems"
894 bool "/proc file system support" if EMBEDDED
897 This is a virtual file system providing information about the status
898 of the system. "Virtual" means that it doesn't take up any space on
899 your hard disk: the files are created on the fly by the kernel when
900 you try to access them. Also, you cannot read the files with older
901 version of the program less: you need to use more or cat.
903 It's totally cool; for example, "cat /proc/interrupts" gives
904 information about what the different IRQs are used for at the moment
905 (there is a small number of Interrupt ReQuest lines in your computer
906 that are used by the attached devices to gain the CPU's attention --
907 often a source of trouble if two devices are mistakenly configured
908 to use the same IRQ). The program procinfo to display some
909 information about your system gathered from the /proc file system.
911 Before you can use the /proc file system, it has to be mounted,
912 meaning it has to be given a location in the directory hierarchy.
913 That location should be /proc. A command such as "mount -t proc proc
914 /proc" or the equivalent line in /etc/fstab does the job.
916 The /proc file system is explained in the file
917 <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> and on the proc(5) manpage
920 This option will enlarge your kernel by about 67 KB. Several
921 programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.
924 bool "/proc/kcore support" if !ARM
925 depends on PROC_FS && MMU
928 bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
929 depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
932 Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
935 bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EMBEDDED
940 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
941 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
942 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
943 interface is through /proc/sys. If you say Y here a tree of
944 modifiable sysctl entries will be generated beneath the
945 /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the files
946 in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
947 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
949 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
950 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
954 bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
957 The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
958 export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
959 relationships to one another.
961 Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
962 kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
963 which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
964 and other kernel subsystems.
966 Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
967 /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
968 delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
970 sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
971 partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
972 the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
973 example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
975 Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
978 bool "Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
980 Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
982 Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
983 created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
984 space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
987 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
989 config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
990 bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
994 POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
995 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
997 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
998 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1000 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
1003 bool "HugeTLB file system support"
1004 depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || SUPERH || BROKEN
1006 hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
1007 ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
1008 <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
1019 Ramfs is a file system which keeps all files in RAM. It allows
1020 read and write access.
1022 It is more of an programming example than a useable file system. If
1023 you need a file system which lives in RAM with limit checking use
1026 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1030 tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1031 depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1033 configfs is a ram-based filesystem that provides the converse
1034 of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
1035 view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
1036 of kernel objects, or config_items.
1038 Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
1039 same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
1043 menu "Miscellaneous filesystems"
1046 tristate "ADFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1047 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1049 The Acorn Disc Filing System is the standard file system of the
1050 RiscOS operating system which runs on Acorn's ARM-based Risc PC
1051 systems and the Acorn Archimedes range of machines. If you say Y
1052 here, Linux will be able to read from ADFS partitions on hard drives
1053 and from ADFS-formatted floppy discs. If you also want to be able to
1054 write to those devices, say Y to "ADFS write support" below.
1056 The ADFS partition should be the first partition (i.e.,
1057 /dev/[hs]d?1) on each of your drives. Please read the file
1058 <file:Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt> for further details.
1060 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1066 bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1069 If you say Y here, you will be able to write to ADFS partitions on
1070 hard drives and ADFS-formatted floppy disks. This is experimental
1071 codes, so if you're unsure, say N.
1074 tristate "Amiga FFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1075 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1077 The Fast File System (FFS) is the common file system used on hard
1078 disks by Amiga(tm) systems since AmigaOS Version 1.3 (34.20). Say Y
1079 if you want to be able to read and write files from and to an Amiga
1080 FFS partition on your hard drive. Amiga floppies however cannot be
1081 read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy
1082 controller used in an Amiga and the standard floppy controller in
1083 PCs and workstations. Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt>
1084 and <file:fs/affs/Changes>.
1086 With this driver you can also mount disk files used by Bernd
1087 Schmidt's Un*X Amiga Emulator
1088 (<http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/>).
1089 If you want to do this, you will also need to say Y or M to "Loop
1090 device support", above.
1092 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1093 module will be called affs. If unsure, say N.
1096 tristate "eCrypt filesystem layer support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1097 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && KEYS && CRYPTO
1099 Encrypted filesystem that operates on the VFS layer. See
1100 <file:Documentation/ecryptfs.txt> to learn more about
1101 eCryptfs. Userspace components are required and can be
1102 obtained from <http://ecryptfs.sf.net>.
1104 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1105 module will be called ecryptfs.
1108 tristate "Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1109 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1112 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
1113 floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1114 Please read <file:fs/hfs/HFS.txt> to learn about the available mount
1117 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1118 module will be called hfs.
1121 tristate "Apple Extended HFS file system support"
1126 If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format
1127 Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access.
1129 This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with
1130 MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as
1131 data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX
1132 style features such as file ownership and permissions.
1135 tristate "BeOS file system (BeFS) support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1136 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1139 The BeOS File System (BeFS) is the native file system of Be, Inc's
1140 BeOS. Notable features include support for arbitrary attributes
1141 on files and directories, and database-like indices on selected
1142 attributes. (Also note that this driver doesn't make those features
1143 available at this time). It is a 64 bit filesystem, so it supports
1144 extremely large volumes and files.
1146 If you use this filesystem, you should also say Y to at least one
1147 of the NLS (native language support) options below.
1149 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1151 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1158 If you say Y here, you can use the 'debug' mount option to enable
1159 debugging output from the driver.
1162 tristate "BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1163 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1165 Boot File System (BFS) is a file system used under SCO UnixWare to
1166 allow the bootloader access to the kernel image and other important
1167 files during the boot process. It is usually mounted under /stand
1168 and corresponds to the slice marked as "STAND" in the UnixWare
1169 partition. You should say Y if you want to read or write the files
1170 on your /stand slice from within Linux. You then also need to say Y
1171 to "UnixWare slices support", below. More information about the BFS
1172 file system is contained in the file
1173 <file:Documentation/filesystems/bfs.txt>.
1175 If you don't know what this is about, say N.
1177 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1178 bfs. Note that the file system of your root partition (the one
1179 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1184 tristate "EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1185 depends on BLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
1187 EFS is an older file system used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and hard
1188 disk partitions by SGI's IRIX operating system (IRIX 6.0 and newer
1189 uses the XFS file system for hard disk partitions however).
1191 This implementation only offers read-only access. If you don't know
1192 what all this is about, it's safe to say N. For more information
1193 about EFS see its home page at <http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/>.
1195 To compile the EFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1196 module will be called efs.
1199 tristate "Journalling Flash File System (JFFS) support"
1200 depends on MTD && BLOCK && BROKEN
1202 JFFS is the Journalling Flash File System developed by Axis
1203 Communications in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe
1204 file system for disk-less embedded devices. Further information is
1205 available at (<http://developer.axis.com/software/jffs/>).
1207 NOTE: This filesystem is deprecated and is scheduled for removal in
1208 2.6.21. See Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
1210 config JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
1211 int "JFFS debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 3 = noisy)"
1215 Determines the verbosity level of the JFFS debugging messages.
1218 bool "JFFS stats available in /proc filesystem"
1219 depends on JFFS_FS && PROC_FS
1221 Enabling this option will cause statistics from mounted JFFS file systems
1222 to be made available to the user in the /proc/fs/jffs/ directory.
1225 tristate "Journalling Flash File System v2 (JFFS2) support"
1229 JFFS2 is the second generation of the Journalling Flash File System
1230 for use on diskless embedded devices. It provides improved wear
1231 levelling, compression and support for hard links. You cannot use
1232 this on normal block devices, only on 'MTD' devices.
1234 Further information on the design and implementation of JFFS2 is
1235 available at <http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/>.
1237 config JFFS2_FS_DEBUG
1238 int "JFFS2 debugging verbosity (0 = quiet, 2 = noisy)"
1242 This controls the amount of debugging messages produced by the JFFS2
1243 code. Set it to zero for use in production systems. For evaluation,
1244 testing and debugging, it's advisable to set it to one. This will
1245 enable a few assertions and will print debugging messages at the
1246 KERN_DEBUG loglevel, where they won't normally be visible. Level 2
1247 is unlikely to be useful - it enables extra debugging in certain
1248 areas which at one point needed debugging, but when the bugs were
1249 located and fixed, the detailed messages were relegated to level 2.
1251 If reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of the
1252 messages at debug level 1 while the misbehaviour was occurring.
1254 config JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
1255 bool "JFFS2 write-buffering support"
1259 This enables the write-buffering support in JFFS2.
1261 This functionality is required to support JFFS2 on the following
1262 types of flash devices:
1264 - NOR flash with transparent ECC
1267 config JFFS2_SUMMARY
1268 bool "JFFS2 summary support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1269 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1272 This feature makes it possible to use summary information
1273 for faster filesystem mount.
1275 The summary information can be inserted into a filesystem image
1276 by the utility 'sumtool'.
1280 config JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1281 bool "JFFS2 XATTR support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1282 depends on JFFS2_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1285 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1286 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1287 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
1291 config JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
1292 bool "JFFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
1293 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1297 Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
1298 groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
1300 To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the Posix ACLs for
1301 Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
1303 If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N
1305 config JFFS2_FS_SECURITY
1306 bool "JFFS2 Security Labels"
1307 depends on JFFS2_FS_XATTR
1310 Security labels support alternative access control models
1311 implemented by security modules like SELinux. This option
1312 enables an extended attribute handler for file security
1313 labels in the jffs2 filesystem.
1315 If you are not using a security module that requires using
1316 extended attributes for file security labels, say N.
1318 config JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1319 bool "Advanced compression options for JFFS2"
1323 Enabling this option allows you to explicitly choose which
1324 compression modules, if any, are enabled in JFFS2. Removing
1325 compressors and mean you cannot read existing file systems,
1326 and enabling experimental compressors can mean that you
1327 write a file system which cannot be read by a standard kernel.
1329 If unsure, you should _definitely_ say 'N'.
1332 bool "JFFS2 ZLIB compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1338 Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered,
1339 lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
1340 hardware and operating system. See <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/> for
1341 further information.
1346 bool "JFFS2 RTIME compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1350 Rtime does manage to recompress already-compressed data. Say 'Y' if unsure.
1353 bool "JFFS2 RUBIN compression support" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1357 RUBINMIPS and DYNRUBIN compressors. Say 'N' if unsure.
1360 prompt "JFFS2 default compression mode" if JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
1361 default JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1364 You can set here the default compression mode of JFFS2 from
1365 the available compression modes. Don't touch if unsure.
1367 config JFFS2_CMODE_NONE
1368 bool "no compression"
1370 Uses no compression.
1372 config JFFS2_CMODE_PRIORITY
1375 Tries the compressors in a predefined order and chooses the first
1378 config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE
1379 bool "size (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1381 Tries all compressors and chooses the one which has the smallest
1387 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
1391 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
1392 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
1393 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
1394 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
1395 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
1397 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt> and
1398 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
1400 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1401 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
1402 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
1407 tristate "FreeVxFS file system support (VERITAS VxFS(TM) compatible)"
1410 FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM)
1411 file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system
1412 of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available
1413 for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems.
1414 Currently only readonly access is supported.
1416 NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and
1417 fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not
1420 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
1421 called freevxfs. If unsure, say N.
1425 tristate "OS/2 HPFS file system support"
1428 OS/2 is IBM's operating system for PC's, the same as Warp, and HPFS
1429 is the file system used for organizing files on OS/2 hard disk
1430 partitions. Say Y if you want to be able to read files from and
1431 write files to an OS/2 HPFS partition on your hard drive. OS/2
1432 floppies however are in regular MSDOS format, so you don't need this
1433 option in order to be able to read them. Read
1434 <file:Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt>.
1436 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1437 module will be called hpfs. If unsure, say N.
1442 tristate "QNX4 file system support (read only)"
1445 This is the file system used by the real-time operating systems
1446 QNX 4 and QNX 6 (the latter is also called QNX RTP).
1447 Further information is available at <http://www.qnx.com/>.
1448 Say Y if you intend to mount QNX hard disks or floppies.
1449 Unless you say Y to "QNX4FS read-write support" below, you will
1450 only be able to read these file systems.
1452 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1453 module will be called qnx4.
1455 If you don't know whether you need it, then you don't need it:
1459 bool "QNX4FS write support (DANGEROUS)"
1460 depends on QNX4FS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
1462 Say Y if you want to test write support for QNX4 file systems.
1464 It's currently broken, so for now:
1470 tristate "System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support"
1473 SCO, Xenix and Coherent are commercial Unix systems for Intel
1474 machines, and Version 7 was used on the DEC PDP-11. Saying Y
1475 here would allow you to read from their floppies and hard disk
1478 If you have floppies or hard disk partitions like that, it is likely
1479 that they contain binaries from those other Unix systems; in order
1480 to run these binaries, you will want to install linux-abi which is
1481 a set of kernel modules that lets you run SCO, Xenix, Wyse,
1482 UnixWare, Dell Unix and System V programs under Linux. It is
1483 available via FTP (user: ftp) from
1484 <ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi/>).
1485 NOTE: that will work only for binaries from Intel-based systems;
1486 PDP ones will have to wait until somebody ports Linux to -11 ;-)
1488 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1489 network using NFS, you don't need the System V file system support
1490 (but you need NFS file system support obviously).
1492 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1493 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1494 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1495 tar" or preferably "info tar"). Note also that this option has
1496 nothing whatsoever to do with the option "System V IPC". Read about
1497 the System V file system in
1498 <file:Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt>.
1499 Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1501 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
1504 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1509 tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
1512 BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
1513 OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
1514 Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
1515 this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
1516 these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
1517 experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
1518 file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
1520 The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
1521 READ-ONLY supported.
1523 If you only intend to mount files from some other Unix over the
1524 network using NFS, you don't need the UFS file system support (but
1525 you need NFS file system support obviously).
1527 Note that this option is generally not needed for floppies, since a
1528 good portable way to transport files and directories between unixes
1529 (and even other operating systems) is given by the tar program ("man
1530 tar" or preferably "info tar").
1532 When accessing NeXTstep files, you may need to convert them from the
1533 NeXT character set to the Latin1 character set; use the program
1534 recode ("info recode") for this purpose.
1536 To compile the UFS file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1537 module will be called ufs.
1539 If you haven't heard about all of this before, it's safe to say N.
1542 bool "UFS file system write support (DANGEROUS)"
1543 depends on UFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1545 Say Y here if you want to try writing to UFS partitions. This is
1546 experimental, so you should back up your UFS partitions beforehand.
1549 bool "UFS debugging"
1552 If you are experiencing any problems with the UFS filesystem, say
1553 Y here. This will result in _many_ additional debugging messages to be
1554 written to the system log.
1558 menu "Network File Systems"
1562 tristate "NFS file system support"
1566 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFS_V3_ACL
1568 If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
1569 (using SLIP, PLIP, PPP or Ethernet) and want to mount files residing
1570 on that computer (the NFS server) using the Network File Sharing
1571 protocol, say Y. "Mounting files" means that the client can access
1572 the files with usual UNIX commands as if they were sitting on the
1573 client's hard disk. For this to work, the server must run the
1574 programs nfsd and mountd (but does not need to have NFS file system
1575 support enabled in its kernel). NFS is explained in the Network
1576 Administrator's Guide, available from
1577 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>, on its man page: "man
1578 nfs", and in the NFS-HOWTO.
1580 A superior but less widely used alternative to NFS is provided by
1581 the Coda file system; see "Coda file system support" below.
1583 If you say Y here, you should have said Y to TCP/IP networking also.
1584 This option would enlarge your kernel by about 27 KB.
1586 To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
1587 module will be called nfs.
1589 If you are configuring a diskless machine which will mount its root
1590 file system over NFS at boot time, say Y here and to "Kernel
1591 level IP autoconfiguration" above and to "Root file system on NFS"
1592 below. You cannot compile this driver as a module in this case.
1593 There are two packages designed for booting diskless machines over
1594 the net: netboot, available from
1595 <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/netboot/>, and Etherboot,
1596 available from <http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/etherboot/>.
1598 If you don't know what all this is about, say N.
1601 bool "Provide NFSv3 client support"
1604 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak version
1605 3 of the NFS protocol.
1610 bool "Provide client support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1613 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1614 Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with
1615 the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
1620 bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1621 depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
1622 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1624 Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
1625 version 4 of the NFS protocol.
1627 Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
1628 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1633 bool "Allow direct I/O on NFS files"
1636 This option enables applications to perform uncached I/O on files
1637 in NFS file systems using the O_DIRECT open() flag. When O_DIRECT
1638 is set for a file, its data is not cached in the system's page
1639 cache. Data is moved to and from user-level application buffers
1640 directly. Unlike local disk-based file systems, NFS O_DIRECT has
1641 no alignment restrictions.
1643 Unless your program is designed to use O_DIRECT properly, you are
1644 much better off allowing the NFS client to manage data caching for
1645 you. Misusing O_DIRECT can cause poor server performance or network
1646 storms. This kernel build option defaults OFF to avoid exposing
1647 system administrators unwittingly to a potentially hazardous
1650 For more details on NFS O_DIRECT, see fs/nfs/direct.c.
1652 If unsure, say N. This reduces the size of the NFS client, and
1653 causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
1654 opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
1657 tristate "NFS server support"
1662 select NFSD_V2_ACL if NFSD_V3_ACL
1663 select NFS_ACL_SUPPORT if NFSD_V2_ACL
1664 select NFSD_TCP if NFSD_V4
1665 select CRYPTO_MD5 if NFSD_V4
1666 select CRYPTO if NFSD_V4
1667 select FS_POSIX_ACL if NFSD_V4
1669 If you want your Linux box to act as an NFS *server*, so that other
1670 computers on your local network which support NFS can access certain
1671 directories on your box transparently, you have two options: you can
1672 use the self-contained user space program nfsd, in which case you
1673 should say N here, or you can say Y and use the kernel based NFS
1674 server. The advantage of the kernel based solution is that it is
1677 In either case, you will need support software; the respective
1678 locations are given in the file <file:Documentation/Changes> in the
1681 If you say Y here, you will get support for version 2 of the NFS
1682 protocol (NFSv2). If you also want NFSv3, say Y to the next question
1685 Please read the NFS-HOWTO, available from
1686 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1688 To compile the NFS server support as a module, choose M here: the
1689 module will be called nfsd. If unsure, say N.
1696 bool "Provide NFSv3 server support"
1699 If you would like to include the NFSv3 server as well as the NFSv2
1700 server, say Y here. If unsure, say Y.
1703 bool "Provide server support for the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension"
1706 Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
1707 Access Control Lists on exported file systems. NFS clients should
1708 be compiled with the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the
1709 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL option. If unsure, say N.
1712 bool "Provide NFSv4 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1713 depends on NFSD_V3 && EXPERIMENTAL
1715 If you would like to include the NFSv4 server as well as the NFSv2
1716 and NFSv3 servers, say Y here. This feature is experimental, and
1717 should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
1721 bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
1725 If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
1726 TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
1727 the network is lossy or congested. If unsure, say Y.
1730 bool "Root file system on NFS"
1731 depends on NFS_FS=y && IP_PNP
1733 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
1734 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
1735 net via NFS (presumably because your box doesn't have a hard disk),
1736 say Y. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details. It is
1737 likely that in this case, you also want to say Y to "Kernel level IP
1738 autoconfiguration" so that your box can discover its network address
1741 Most people say N here.
1748 depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
1754 config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
1760 depends on NFSD || NFS_FS
1769 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
1770 tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1771 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1778 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1779 mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
1782 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1783 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1787 config RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3
1788 tristate "Secure RPC: SPKM3 mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1789 depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
1797 Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
1798 mechanism based on the SPKM3 public-key mechanism.
1800 Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
1801 http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
1806 tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"
1810 SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups
1811 (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share
1812 files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to
1813 mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and
1814 access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this
1815 works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying
1816 transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read
1817 <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO,
1818 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
1820 Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make
1821 files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need
1822 to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use
1823 the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>)
1826 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
1827 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
1829 To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will
1830 be called smbfs. Most people say N, however.
1832 config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1833 bool "Use a default NLS"
1836 Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You
1837 need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls
1838 settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as
1839 CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE.
1841 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1842 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1844 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1846 config SMB_NLS_REMOTE
1847 string "Default Remote NLS Option"
1848 depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
1851 This setting allows you to specify a default value for which
1852 codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no
1853 translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset
1854 default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.
1856 The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount
1857 supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters.
1859 smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.
1862 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)"
1866 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
1867 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
1868 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
1869 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
1870 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1871 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1872 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1873 support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1874 You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1875 such as OS/2 and DOS.
1877 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1878 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1879 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1880 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1881 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
1882 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
1883 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
1884 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
1885 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1886 to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1889 bool "CIFS statistics"
1892 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
1893 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
1896 bool "Extended statistics"
1897 depends on CIFS_STATS
1899 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
1900 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
1901 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
1902 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
1903 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
1904 and memory utilization.
1906 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
1909 config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
1910 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
1913 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
1914 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
1915 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
1916 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
1917 SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
1919 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
1920 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
1921 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
1922 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
1923 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
1924 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
1925 is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
1926 automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
1927 can be set to required (or optional) either in
1928 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
1929 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
1930 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
1936 bool "CIFS extended attributes"
1939 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
1940 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
1941 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
1942 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
1943 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
1944 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
1945 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
1946 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
1952 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
1953 depends on CIFS_XATTR
1955 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
1956 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
1957 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
1958 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
1959 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
1960 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
1961 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
1964 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
1967 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
1968 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
1969 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
1970 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
1971 option can be turned off unless you are debugging
1972 cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
1974 config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1975 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1976 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1978 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1979 experimental and currently include support for writepages
1980 (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
1981 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
1982 improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the
1983 pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
1984 default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
1989 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
1990 depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1991 depends on CONNECTOR
1993 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
1994 userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
1995 tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
1996 (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
2000 tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
2001 depends on IPX!=n || INET
2003 NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) is a protocol that runs over IPX and is
2004 used by Novell NetWare clients to talk to file servers. It is to
2005 IPX what NFS is to TCP/IP, if that helps. Saying Y here allows you
2006 to mount NetWare file server volumes and to access them just like
2007 any other Unix directory. For details, please read the file
2008 <file:Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt> in the kernel source and
2009 the IPX-HOWTO from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
2011 You do not have to say Y here if you want your Linux box to act as a
2012 file *server* for Novell NetWare clients.
2014 General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and
2015 Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>.
2017 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
2018 ncpfs. Say N unless you are connected to a Novell network.
2020 source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
2023 tristate "Coda file system support (advanced network fs)"
2026 Coda is an advanced network file system, similar to NFS in that it
2027 enables you to mount file systems of a remote server and access them
2028 with regular Unix commands as if they were sitting on your hard
2029 disk. Coda has several advantages over NFS: support for
2030 disconnected operation (e.g. for laptops), read/write server
2031 replication, security model for authentication and encryption,
2032 persistent client caches and write back caching.
2034 If you say Y here, your Linux box will be able to act as a Coda
2035 *client*. You will need user level code as well, both for the
2036 client and server. Servers are currently user level, i.e. they need
2037 no kernel support. Please read
2038 <file:Documentation/filesystems/coda.txt> and check out the Coda
2039 home page <http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/>.
2041 To compile the coda client support as a module, choose M here: the
2042 module will be called coda.
2044 config CODA_FS_OLD_API
2045 bool "Use 96-bit Coda file identifiers"
2048 A new kernel-userspace API had to be introduced for Coda v6.0
2049 to support larger 128-bit file identifiers as needed by the
2050 new realms implementation.
2052 However this new API is not backward compatible with older
2053 clients. If you really need to run the old Coda userspace
2054 cache manager then say Y.
2056 For most cases you probably want to say N.
2059 tristate "Andrew File System support (AFS) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2060 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2063 If you say Y here, you will get an experimental Andrew File System
2064 driver. It currently only supports unsecured read-only AFS access.
2066 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/afs.txt> for more information.
2074 tristate "Plan 9 Resource Sharing Support (9P2000) (Experimental)"
2075 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
2077 If you say Y here, you will get experimental support for
2078 Plan 9 resource sharing via the 9P2000 protocol.
2080 See <http://v9fs.sf.net> for more information.
2087 menu "Partition Types"
2089 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
2094 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
2095 source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"